Yeah, I'm thinking of putting them into my Green frogs' half land half water aquarium... Seeing as the frogs never showed any interest whatsoever in their feeder guppies that I bought them (which are now busily producing more feeder guppies--they've got a whole colony going) I'm thinking that they probably won't bother the ghost shrimp, either. And if they do, well, no biggie, seeing as they only cost 30 cents and my lfs has plenty more to sell.
Evil Ghost Shrimp????
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but you would still have to work for them to breed! although thats not what some would say...
i dont think you'd be able to rescue a large amount of eggs anyways, fry, no matter what species, will chomp it down if there large enough. but just hope for the best, besides, if they get til 2" then spawn, you'd have quite a LOT of eggs, just enough for the survival rate to get you through to doing well
i dont think you'd be able to rescue a large amount of eggs anyways, fry, no matter what species, will chomp it down if there large enough. but just hope for the best, besides, if they get til 2" then spawn, you'd have quite a LOT of eggs, just enough for the survival rate to get you through to doing well
I just picked up on this thread.....yes, ghost shrimp CAN eat your fry. I had several beautiful red wag platy fry in my large tank, and I came home from school one day to find a ghost shrimp sitting on top of one of my plants eating one of the fry. i quickly moved all the fry into my smaller tank. Ghost shrimp will get more aggresive as the water temperature rises; at 70F, they are much more lethargic and laid back than they are at 80F. I keep my tanks around 78F, but I've never had a problem with my shrimp attacking anything else. To keep your tank clean, you might want to pick up an algae eater or two; I have 4 in my 20, and they have finished cleaning the algae of the sides of the tank, so they swim around and clean individual pieces of gravel now as well. I've also noticed my clown loaches cleaning gravel too.
Oh yes, and ghost shrimp are freshwater shrimp, also known as glass shrimp. They're larger than brine shrimp, which ARE saltwater shrimp. Brine shrimp are very closely related to SeaMonkeys.
Oh yes, and ghost shrimp are freshwater shrimp, also known as glass shrimp. They're larger than brine shrimp, which ARE saltwater shrimp. Brine shrimp are very closely related to SeaMonkeys.
I have 4 pygmy cories in my maternity tank, when all the fish have had their babies, I will keep the cories in the nursery tank. I also have 2 baby albino cories in there, they were so small I kind of rescued them from the lfs, I didn't want somebody thinknig there were just cute and not caring for the properly. One of them is very skinny, so I call him Skinny, and one is sort os deformed, his spine is bent so he is a bit shorter than he should be. He can still swim and eat and is fine every other way, I call him Squishy. But they do a good job in the tank and are small as well.
There is a species of freshwater shrimp which is sold as Ghost Shrimp, that frankly is a preditor. I've had several now that grew to 5-6'" and would eat any fish they could catch. Twice I've had a male betta in with a 'harmless' ghost shimp only for the betta to have its finnage munched. Once the betta was in the tank for only 1 night and it happened. My current 6" ghost shrimp has disfigured the tails of two mollies, who are now in the hospital, fin therapy ward. I placed 19 molly/platy fry (all 1/2") in a 20G with this shrimp previously and within 1 month they'd all been eaten.
At a LFS in Dallas I was shown a larger 18" version of the same shrimp. The owner claimed that there was a 24" in his pond as well, but I never saw him. Seems to me this is the only variety that is sold in our area. All of mine have either died young or grown large.
So, it is possible for ghost shrimp to munch on fish. Here are a couple of old pictures of one which grew in excess of 6" and I gave him to a Pet** aquatics manager for his 90G cichlid tank. If you see these markings on a shrimp just be ready for it to eat fish.
At a LFS in Dallas I was shown a larger 18" version of the same shrimp. The owner claimed that there was a 24" in his pond as well, but I never saw him. Seems to me this is the only variety that is sold in our area. All of mine have either died young or grown large.
So, it is possible for ghost shrimp to munch on fish. Here are a couple of old pictures of one which grew in excess of 6" and I gave him to a Pet** aquatics manager for his 90G cichlid tank. If you see these markings on a shrimp just be ready for it to eat fish.
Not a lobster, notice the small (shrimp-like) claws. According to the lFS owner they grow these out in West Texas for the food industry and sell them on the side to aquatic stores as cleaner or feeder shrimp. They breed prolifically and grow quite rapidly. They catch the fish at night and eat them tail to head. I actually woke up one morning and saw one eating an Oto, who was very much alive. I guess that's how it WOULD work, but it was still odd to see.
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